Improvement in quilting attachments for sewing-machines



J. DOUGLASS.

QUILTING-ATTACHMENT FOP. SEWING-MACHINES.

Patented Feb. 27, 1877.

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N. PETERS, PMQTIHJTNQGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

JOHN DOUGLASS, OF MILLPORT, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT m QUILTING ATTACHMENTS FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187.830, dated February27, 1877; application filed June 12, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J OHN DOUGLASS, ot'Millport, in the county of Knox and State of Missouri, have invented anew and Improved Sewing-Machine Quilting-Frame; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The invention relates to a quilting-frame, attached to and pendent froma travelingcarriage, which is supported upon an extensible beam or framein such manner as adapts it to be used in connection with asewing-machine, as will be hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a perspective view of the entireapparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan view.Fig. 3 is a detail view, showing a fragment of the extensible beam orframe upon which the traversing-carriage is supported.

The quilting-frame consists of the parallel end bars A A and siderollers B B. The quilt G is attached to the rollers in the usual way,and the latter are provided with ratchets a, with which the slottedpawls b engage, as shown. The quilting -frame is attached to, andsupported from, the carriage D by cords c and d. The cords 11 passthrough rings 0, in order to prevent the carriage being tilted byunequal application of the weight of the frame, as when the quilt isrolled more on one roller, A, that the other.

The traveling-carriageD consists of a frame, f, mounted upon flangedwheels or rollers E E, one of which is longer than the other, to adaptit to run on the broader portion of the beam F. Said beam is made in twoparts, 9 h, one, h, of which is slotted or mortised, Fig. 3, to receivethe other, g, so that the length of the beam may be increased orlessened, as required. The said parts are secured or clamped together inany adjustment by means of the bolt 13, which passes through the slot isin part g. The object of the adjustment is to adapt the length of thebeam to rooms of different widths. In some cases the beam will besupported upon vertical posts G, nailed to the mop-board, on oppositesides of a room in which the quilting is to be done. But more frequentlythe posts G will be dispensed with, and the ends of the beam allowed tobear against the walls of the room, the bolt 2' serving to hold theparts g h in the required adjustment, so that the beam will thus besupported at the desired height above the sewingmachine employed forquilting.

In using the apparatus, the sewing-machine is placed under the beam F,and one of the rollers A placed under the arm or standard thereof. Thequilting-frame is then fed toward the right, while the sewing-machine isbeing operated, the feed motion being produced by the weight H, which isattached to the carriage by a rope, I, passing over a pulley, m. Saidweight is made hollow, to adapt it to receive shot or other smallweights, as required, to produce the desired feed-motion. The movementof the quilting-frame is made simultaneous with that of thetraveling-carriage by means of the inclined bars q, which connect them,as shown, Fig. 1. When a row of stitches has been quilted the entirelength of the quilt O the rollers A are turned and the pawls I) adjustedin another notch, to take up a portion of the quilt, and the. frame andcarriage are moved back to the left to repeat the operation.

When the quiltingframe is not required for use it may be suspended fromthe beam F, out of the way, by means of hooks r and straps s, as will bereadily understood.

What I claim is- The combination of the quilting-frame and itssuspending-cords, the traveling weighted carriage, and theconnecting-bars q, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN DOUGLASS. Witnesses:

Sums MARCH, Sums MGSWAIN.

